Height Quotes

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.

The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height.

Every man at three years old is half his height

The policy of letting the free market determine the height of wage rates is the only reasonable and successful full-employment policy.

Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne'er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.

On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. -Old Seanchan saying

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation.

Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.

I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.

I don't like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.

We are known in a depth of darkness through which we ourselves do not even dare to look. And at the same time, we are seen in a height of a fullness which surpasses our highest vision.

There's no secret on how to attain a greater height, just keep climbing the ladder, don't look at the dreadful distance, lock up that negative thoughts today, and fulfil your dreams.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.

I find it actually the height of romance to legally bind yourself to someone because you're really taking care of someone, and letting them take care of you. I actually have no cynicism about that.

Well, I really don't like heights. I don't get on the top deck of a double-decker because that's a bit high for me. I always feel that I'm going to hurl myself off, so heights are a problem.

Hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height. Don't fall off a curb, fall off a cliff.

Julie Dryfus and I were both afraid of heights and in one scene, I had to be quite high up and I was rather terrified, but Julie was very kind, encouraging me and we got through that together.

Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region.

The difference between the ground and the heights you achieve.

I don't believe that you can be too short as a quarterback. It's not about height.

To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.

To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]

The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height.

I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.

I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.

Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this [is] subjectivity ... at its height.

For some people, 'ten feet tall' is just a metaphor. For me, it's more than twice my height!

Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.

A lonely fir-tree is standing On a northern barren height; It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift Cast round it a garment of white.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.

I am comfortable at the height where destiny has put me.

Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.

Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.

Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.

Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

When the war broke out I decided I would be very patriotic. Standing my full height. I presented myself to the Wacs and the to the Waves. And I was rejected - I was an inch too tall.

Birds teach us something very important: To whatever height you rise, you will finally come down to the ground!

Your waist size should not be more than half your height.

I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Thou hidden love of God, whose height, Whose depth unfathomed no man knows, I see from far thy beauteous light, Only I sigh for thy repose.

I'd never been a tall guy, and the girls I'd dated had all been my height--teenaged girls grow faster than guys, which is a cruel trick of nature.

The world's deteriorating ecology poses as great a danger to mankind today as did the nuclear standoff between the superpowers at the height of the Cold War.

The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage; A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er the weight Of seventy years, to loftier height.